Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Component identifier:

Series 52

Content Summary:

This small series includes minutes of meetings in Australia in 1913 and 1914 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; a small number of papers of the Australian Society of New York Inc., including the first two editions of The Coo-ee-Clarion 4 Jan. 1940 and 18 Jan. 1940; and a portrait, notes and an obituary of Sir David Orme Mazsson, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, who died in 1937.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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